The front yards, footpaths and verges of Australian suburbs are spaces overdue for reinvention.

At Tolhuistuin, the government provides the land, old building stock and a maintenance budget for a fixed period while the creatives develop the precinct themselves.
Maurice Mikkers/flickrSeptember 20, 2016

The rise in temporary use of urban space requires a looser planning vision that can draw on this new type of city-making to inform longer-term developments.

The continued preference for detached housing in new suburbs is driving Perth’s urban sprawl and means two-thirds of dwellings built over the next 15 years need to be on infill sites to meet the state’s target.
perthhdproductions/flickrSeptember 19, 2016

Perth’s Fringe World 2015 is currently sauntering through the Western Australian capital. Featuring more than 2,000 performers, the annual festival has perfected a blend of cabaret, circus, theatre, film…

Wind and humidity affect how easy it is to cool off in a heatwave. Big swimming pools help, too.
AAP Image/Dan PeledJanuary 5, 2015

Several Australian cities, such as Adelaide and Perth, have greeted 2015 with scorching weather as summer hits its stride – the kind of conditions that leave us crying out for an air conditioner, rather…

The AAL Fremantle, borne along by a meteotsunami, hits the rail bridge next to Fremantle Harbour.
‏@Mattiegeesu via TwitterSeptember 9, 2014

At around 10pm on Sunday 17 August 2014, the container ship AAL Fremantle was being unloaded after arriving in Western Australia’s Fremantle Harbour, when it broke away from its mooring and collided with…

The once-popular Loch McNess north of Perth has dried up almost completely after a decades-long dry period.
ron_n_beth/FlickrJune 30, 2014

Since 1970, average rainfall in the south-west of Western Australia has decreased by nearly a fifth, and the science suggests that this is linked to human-caused climate change. Across Australia, CSIRO…

The return of heatwaves and bushfires to the news pages has brought fresh warnings that Australians who live in fire-prone zones still don’t fully understand the risk they are running. Deadly fires in…